20010102: McIDAS 7.7 compressed transfer problems

>From: Eirh-Yu Hsie <address@hidden>
>Organization: CU/CIRES
>Keywords: 200101021555.f02Ftlo18427 McIDAS-X 7.7 MCCOMPRESS

Hsie,

>I have some configuration problem.  The data is there, but I can not list it:
>
>cirrus:[44]% ls -l GRID55* GRID56*
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  170930524 Dec 31 20:15 GRID5501
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  171026240 Jan  1 20:13 GRID5502
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  149938500 Dec 31 20:18 GRID5511
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  149938500 Jan  1 20:17 GRID5512
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  70002044 Dec 31 20:05 GRID5521
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  70002044 Jan  1 20:06 GRID5522
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  141201152 Jan  1 01:00 GRID5531
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  141201152 Jan  2 00:52 GRID5532
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  124833716 Jan  1 01:21 GRID5541
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  124642284 Jan  2 01:19 GRID5542
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  170930524 Jan  1 08:19 GRID5561
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  171026240 Jan  2 08:22 GRID5562
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  150129932 Jan  1 08:20 GRID5571
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  149722632 Jan  2 08:24 GRID5572
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  70002044 Jan  1 08:10 GRID5581
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  70002044 Jan  2 08:10 GRID5582
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  141201152 Jan  1 12:47 GRID5591
>-rw-rw-r--   1 ldm      unidata  124833716 Jan  1 13:18 GRID5601
>
>cumulus:[127]% grdlist.k RTGRIDS/ETA.ALL FORM=FILE
>stdin: not in compressed format
>GRDLIST - done

What is going on here is that the client application grdlist.k is requesting
the transaction be done in compressed mode and something on the server
side is not locating the 'compress' application.

This can be caused by two different things:

o 'compress' cannot be found on your server (not there or not in a
  "standard" location)

o there is some sort of a problem in the ~mcidas/.mcenv file that is
  used to define McIDAS environment variables on your server

Tom